The Promises and the Promiser
Need encouragement during a rough time? A reminder of God’s promises? Sometimes exploring God’s Word, through our interactive life lessons like the “Discover Your God” series, can help!
Originally written by Charles H. Spurgeon, published in “Mornings & Evenings,” entry for July 27th, AM.
Updated to modern English by Darren Hewer, 2008.
“Exceeding great and precious promises.” 2 Peter 1:4, KJV
If you would like to put into practice the preciousness of God’s promises, and enjoy them personally, meditate on them. God’s promises are like grapes in a wine-press: If you tread on them the juice will flow. Thinking over God’s holy words will often lead to their fulfillment in your own life. While you ponder them, the blessing you seek will often come to you in ways you don’t even expect. Many Christians who have thirsted for God’s promises have found the divine favor which they ensure gently comforting into their soul and causing great rejoicing in their hearts.
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Besides meditating on God’s promises, seek to receive them as being the very words of God. Say to yourself, “If I were dealing with a mere human being’s promise, I would need to carefully weigh the ability and the character of the person who promised me. But with the promises of God, even though the greatness of the promise itself may stagger me, my eye must instead be fixated on the greatness of the Promiser.” That will comfort you and give you confidence in His words.
My friend, it is God Almighty who has made these promises. God, who cannot lie, who speaks His promises to you: That “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6) His Word is as true as His own existence. God is unchangeable and He has not changed anything which has come out of His mouth, and never called back one single word. He lacks no power, for this is the God that made the heavens and the earth. And He can never lack wisdom, because He in his infinite understanding He knows when it is best to give and when better to take away.
Therefore, seeing that it is the word of a God true, unchangeable, powerful, and so incomparably wise, I will and must believe His promises. If we meditate on His promises, and consider the Promiser, we will experience their sweetness and fulfillment.
Question: Which of God’s promises will you take hold of today and claim for yourself, believing it in wholeheartedly?
About this Author: Charles Spurgeon
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I am rather made into a form of a person who can understand the word well. Praise be to God. I know God’s promises in my personal, family, financial and Social life are experiencing a change from nothingness to abundance and I claim them in the name of our mighty Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.